We may not have picked them, dug them up or destroyed them with weed-killers, but 24 plant species that lived only in California are now extinct, and more than 200 others are endangered. The stateΓÇÖs population is over 30 million, and the population estimation for 2035 is 44 million. Urban development and related facilities, like roads, parking lots, parks, and golf courses, the expansion of farming, and fires have caused the disappearance of a large part of the stateΓÇÖs natural environments and have led to plant and animal extinction.
